[sw-l] haiku classifiers

[Nancy Emery]

It's also interesting the way the classifiers seem to work in BSL as
compared to ASL. When I think of showing a bird perching on a branch in ASL,
the branch is one of the fingers on the tree-hand (probably the thumb).  Or
if I wanted to show a fat curving branch with a classifier like you did, I
feel like I'd have to make a trunk with a classifier first.  But I'm not a
native signer, just a hearing person who loves poetry, stories and
classifiers, so I could be wrong.

Nancy Emery

on 10/25/04 7:48 AM, Sandy Fleming at sandy at FLEIMIN.DEMON.CO.UK wrote:

> There's a new item now, a translation of a traditional Japanese haiku. Yes,
> I'm starting small  :)
>
> http://bsltext.org/poems/basho.asp